35 Again!!

The birthday cake Grandma C did for me last year was always going to be a hard act to follow.

You may remember this bowl-of-noodles cake.

So this year, as I turn 35 again, she didn't even try decorating my cake.

Instead, we had a simple, but highly delicious cake.  In fact, having baked it a couple of times earlier, it has earned a place in our book of family classics.

The honey cake - one of the most delicious cakes I've ever eaten.  The recipe is here.  Go make it - you won't regret it.

New Skills

Saw this in DIL's Facebook page.

I so glad Granddaughter A is learning new skills and broadening her horizons!

More Art

The following are some pieces of Australian art which we enjoyed when visiting the Singapore National Gallery.

Frederick McCubbin, Violet and Gold (1911)

My favourite - captures our wheatbelt to a T, especially the tall, elegant eucalypts.

Artistry and High Tea

I did mention, a few posts ago, our visit to the Singapore's National Art Gallery and that I'd be posting more about it.

The exhibition that was on at the time of our visit was called "Art and Empire", if I remember correctly and depicted the growth of the British Empire.

The Gallery allows photos to be taken of all items but one, the copyright of which belongs to a certain Japanese gentleman I was told.

So here's a few I enjoyed.

 

This painting, by an unknown artist and entitled "The Departure of King Thibaw and Queen Supalayat from Mandalay at the End of the Third Burma War in 1885" was an especially poignant one for me as we had visited Mandalay and the Palace a few years back.

I have, in fact, a photo of the observation tower with the spiral staircase in the top left of the painting.

Wandering through the Gallery, we stumbled on Violet Oon's restaurant.

Recognising that she had been a contemporary of ours during our student days (though we never knew her personally), and being in need of a good sit-down, we entered the beautifully set up space and had high tea there.

High tea was $53 for the two of us, and quite a bargain we thought, given the ambience of the place and the generous amount of sweet and savoury delights reminding me of my Peranakan heritage.

I thought this tray was cleverly designed, being reminiscent of a tiffin carrier.

Pork bun and sambal sandwich

L to R: Otak, nasi kunyit, pie tee, and buah keluak

The sweets, and I can't remember all the names, though.